The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-03-10
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gor-nails almond-shaped.
TuERH are b,0OO,0DO tuberoses on one
plantation at San Mateo, Fla.
BoYs undor sixteen years Of ago can not
buy tobacco at Grass Valley, Cal.
ANOTHER Washington monument is pro-
posed, TO be paid for by the nation.
BucKwnrAr cakes, 20 be fashionable,
should not be larger than trade dollsr
the Senate passed iifty-seven pension
bills in twenty-five minutes, the other
day.
A FLORIDA MoTiiER has two children, orc
named Jefferson Davis, the other Abraham
LiDcoln.
JULIA TAILoR, colored, expired few
days ago In st. Louis, at the great ago Of
III years.
"Home for Drunken and Depraved
Women is n philnnthropic enterprise now
under consideration In ST. Louis
A MAcnINE has beon Invented that prints
tho sides and ends OF boxes at the same
time at tho rate OF $500 per hour,
NEw YoRK Italians are trying TO secure
site In Central Park, near tbs bust Of
Mezzini, for statue of Garibaldi.
ALEXANDER Is. CoxE, JR., OF Now York,
Is said 10 be the biggest man at Yale, his
weight being given ns 3il pounds
MRs SfEPnES u. ELKINs recently pre-
sented "A library consisting Of 400 worth Of
books 20 tho town OF Davis, W. Va.
SECRETARY LANoST gets the handsome
salary OF 1900, President Cleveland pay
ing him $500 ont Of his own pocket.
TnE value OF manufactured articles
In this country surpasses tho value Of
those made in Great Britain by more than
SfO0,O000O0
IT bcingtolorahly certain that the world
Is not 10 come 10 an end before the year
1000, Now York may yet have Grant
monument.
liz regard 10 tho present situation in
Europe General Wolseley says; "A vast
and appalling war is a certainty in the
near future.n
THE latost distinguished lady who thinks
Of becoming an actress is Ethel Chase, the
daughter Of Ex-Governor Sprngue, OF
Rhode Island.
A NEBRASKA man who recently died at
the age Of l0a, was shipwrceked many
years ago aud SWAN nine miles with wo-
man on his back.
TBIiE have been just admitted to the
poor.housc OF Beaver County, Pa. a man
and his wife and i've children, three Of
whom werc triplcts.
NEW pocket camera has been invented
II is enclosed IN an ordinary silver watch
case, and is said 10 do very good work by
tho dry-platc process
CArrAIS RoBTRT w. ANpREws, Of Boston,
who is in his nincty.srvcnth yoar, wants
10 challenge any man OF his age TO match
at walking or jumping.
JuSg 81 has been decided upon nv tho
date for u national celebration of the
Queens Jubilee day in England, and il
viii be declared n holiday
MRs KGrE CnAsE is making arrange.
mcnts for the publication Of tho biography
OF her father, the late Chief Justice, which
she has undertaken 10 write
PAoi,, KAN, has q natural gas spouter
that blew q plumber into the roof OF
derrick, nearly killing him. He was test
ing the pressure and found out
TENNEssEris Senate has rejected bill
approprinting sl,S0 for monument 10
George Peabody, through whose benoy.
olence thcstAte was a great gamer.
Born Carl Schurx aud Ben Butler are
suffering from severe falls on the side
walk, tho former having slipped in New
Ycrk and the latter in Philadelphia.
Ex-GovrRNbR CuRrlS was recently called |
upon by u soldiers widow, for whom he |
had secured u pension and given half |
dozen kisses in public for tile assistanceh ho |
had rendered
a RrcENrwager betwccn two Viennese |
elected the fact that, for the completion Of |
nwinier oycrcont, "lcss than 40, 900 stitchesm |
are required, viz. 396l9, which is pretty |
good guess after all.
JonS PESzEL, ofJackson, No, purchased |
collins for himself aud wife ten years ago, |
which he keeps in the upper story of his |
house The old man frequently gets into |
his TO see how IL fits.
Mrs. CLEVELAND probably receives the
most letters Of any woman in the United
States, and Mrs, Jenncss Miller, the Il ader |
OF the dress reform movement, is said TO
have the next largest post.
A AFARMKR Of Otter Tail County who Wis.,
itcd tho Minnesota Legislature recently,
made but one remark during his stay,
and that was this; "By gosh Pm
statesman myself alongside sf these fell
lows"
THERE is a cat doctor, who runs n drug
store In Washington, who is doing thriv-
ing business by alleviating the ills of the
feline and canine races. He has the high
est class Of callers Of any professional man
In the city.
RICHARD PENNIsTAN, actor, has just been
admitted TO the Forrest Homo in Philadel-
phia In 1873 Pennistan drew $4,000 in
the Royal Havana Lottery, but his good
luck was his ruin, and for number OF
years ho has been penniless.
SAM JONES says: IF l wanted to get
good, square Judgment on something
had done l had rather go to newspaper Of
flee for it than any other court of justice.
know tho justice Of journals, their integ-
rity and tho purity Of their motives.n
NOSE GnsoN, negro, eighty seven
years old, walks to Washington, Ca, and
back daily, a distance of eight miles, car
rying the mail for the family that owned
him before the war, thus earning board
and clothing for himself and his old wife.
THE Pennsylvania hair stealer Is again
abroad His latest victim is Annie Her
ring, of Reading, who, going OUT of the
kitchen door at o'clock in the morning,
was knocked down. She tainted, and
when she recovered found she had lost